August 21, 2010 by Jen
According to a police statement issued this week, twelve people have been accused of fraud committed on music store iTunes, purchasing songs using stolen credit cards. The group have been arrested for allegedly creating their own songs and uploading them to the online music store, in order to subsequently download them hundreds of times in an effort to boost their popularity and generate revenue.
According to police sources, the twelve people concerned with the allegations set out to deliberately scam the iTunes system by designing a ploy to produce revenue through fraud and deception. The group made the songs which were subsequently uploaded to the music site specifically to produce a product which could then be purchased fraudulently, in order to move up the download charts and generate illicit sales.
The group created approximately twenty songs and uploaded them, both in iTunes and various Amazon online music sites. By deploying both stolen and cloned credit cards, they were able to purchase songs worth almost five hundred thousand pounds, and claim all the royalties from the sales.
The group will appear at City of Westminster Magistrates’ Court on September 15th. They are based in Birmingham, Wolverhampton, Kent and Birmingham. Scotland Yard e-crime experts became involved after being alerted by the online music sellers, and took each of the twelve suspected participants in for questioning. Initial enquiries were instigated following preliminary FBI claims that the online music stores were being targeted by an international group.
Police have named the people involved, as:
- Denver White
- Rajan Aheer
- Craig Anderson
- Arran Jassi
- Sandeep Aheer
- Colton Johnson
- Lamar Johnson.
In addition, four other people will appear in court following allegations of fraud and deception.
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